On the Motion of Animals by Camille Rankine
"I could / love you like you / probably should / be loved but my love / is a fish / in the wrong / kind of water"
Happiness by Raymond Carver
"Such beauty that for a minute / death and ambition, even love, / doesn't enter into this."
Conversation by Ai
"and you realize how that image / is simply the extension of another image, / that your own life / is a chain of words / that one day will snap"
The Hug by Tess Gallagher
"Love – that’s what we’re talking about, love / that nabs you with “for me / only” and holds on."
For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
"This morning the light hits it all / The footlights of my head are lit again / And the room I live in is finally bright"
Lessons from a Revolution by Ramón C. Sunico
“All pain / blinds. / All pain / is intimate.” — Ramón C. Sunico